Month: September 2013

Quite a productive day today, here’s another note to self containing a nice jQuery snippet that appends a string to a given attribute of a certain tag. I got the snippet from stackoverflow (of course).

I am doing some content work in a mixed php/perl/legacy web environment. I added some code to the part of the system that I have access to that hides the content I am working on unless I add a &preview in the URL. Because I part of the system that generates the menus, I had to add the &preview manually. This snippet allows me to stay in preview mode once I have entered preview mode.

Use pandoc + citeproc-hs (which is included in the pandoc package if installed via cabal) to convert to whatever.

Zotero settings

Zotero has a hidden preference setting called extensions.zotero.recursiveCollections (or just recursiveCollections if using the desktop version). Setting the value of this to true, instead of the default false value, selecting a folder also displays the contents of its sub-folders. I think this behaviour makes sense for a document management system (where finding a document is more important than knowing where it resides).

To change the value of extensions.zotero.recursiveCollections, just go to about:config, find the preference name and then double click the value.

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Tweetdeck column terminology

Following a comment made by @segelstrom, I decided to try Tweetdeck again. However, when setting up my columns I was confused by the names of the columns, so I decided to check the documentation. I found the column descriptions and names on Twitter’s web confusing. Below are the column names and their descriptions as written on the help page as of September 23, 2013.

Timeline: Home timeline for a specific account (any account)

Interactions: Interactions for a specific account, including when the account’s Tweets are retweeted, favorited, or mentioned, and also includes when users follow the account

Mentions: Only includes when users mention a specific account

Followers: Follow activity for a specific account

Messages: Direct messages for a specific account

Search: A column for a specific search term

Lists: Assign or create a list to be displayed within a column

Tweets: Tweets from a specific account

Favorites: Tweets marked as favorites from a specific account

Trends: A column dedicated to specific worldwide trends

Activity: What’s happening with the accounts you follow

Inbox: Direct messages from all your authorized accounts in aggregate

Scheduled: Your scheduled Tweets

I suggest the following/need the following explanations:

Timeline: I think the explanation should read “Tweets from people one of your accounts follows.”

Interactions: I think the description of the interaction column is great.

Mentions: I propose the following wording of the description: “Mentions for one of your accounts”

Followers: I think the description should be “Shows when people follow you”, avoid using the term “activity” as you use this for your Activity column.

Messages: I propose a change of wording of the description to “Direct messages sent and received for a specific account.”

Search: No ambiguity here.

Lists: A note specifying that these are not lists saved on Twitter would be nice.

Tweets: Perhaps renaming the column to My Tweets, or at least specifying the wording of the description to: “Tweets made by one of your added accounts” (in contrast to tweets from any selected twitter user).

Favorites: Improve wording of description to: “Tweets one of your accounts has marked as a Favorite”.

Trends: The description should read: “Create a search column for a currently trending topic”, as this column does not display currently trending topics.

Activity: This is a strange column. First, the name of the column would be much clearer if if was Activity from people I follow, but as this is to long, perhaps Others’ activity or Follow’s activity, might work. Also, the description needs to read more like the description of the Interactions column, e.g. “Shows the activity of the people you follow, including their favorites, follows, excluding their tweets and retweets.”

Inbox: I propose you change the wording to “Sent and received direct messages from all your accounts.”. The name of the column could also be changed to All messages, as it does not only contain received messages. This also shows its relation to the Messages column.Scheduled: No ambiguity here.